The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1887-10-27
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Dr. the capsi2ing Of skiff on the 18th in
the river at Foxburg, Pa, ]. and H. Neville
lbrothers) were drowned
The Kent House and q number OF cot
tages at Lake View, near jamestown, n. T..
were destroyed by fire on the 18th Loss,
$15 900
JAMES o'CoSsELL's dwelling at Peabody.
Mass, was burned ON the 18th, and two oi
hfs children, James, aged four, aid Mary.
aged two years. were s,iffdcated
CHARLES Dickens, son of the well-known
author, arrived in New York from London
on the 17thL He will give readings through
the country from selections from his fathers
books
The seventh game In the series Tor the
worlds baseball championship. played on
the 18th at Philadelphia, resulted: Detroit
;; st. Louis !. Detroit has thus far won
FIVE q the seven games
The purchase Of the New York Graphic by
a asyndicate OF wealthy Republicans was an.
nounced on the 18th.
The French steamship Britannia, arrived
in New York on the 18th from Marseilles
and Naples, with four cases Of cholera on
board
The schooner Herman Babson, arrived al
Gloucester, Mass, on the 18th from Grand
Fre'sch fishing s.oop, St Pierre and finding
ten men drowned In the cabin and the
vessel water-logged
The eighth game OF baseball for the
worlds championship, played on the 18th
at Boston, resulted: Detroit, o; st. Louis.
2. or the seven games to be played st.
Louis must win six to secure the champion
ship
A EuGGY containing Mrs. Jacob Stelzfus
and Mira Barbara Stelzfus was struck by q
train on the 1Ss at crossing near Ronk'a
Station. Pa, and both women were killed
At Fairmouns Park, Philadelphia, an
equestrian statue of General Meade was un-
vailed on the 18th. The military parade
was of an imposing character
Two HUNDRED and eighty Mormon con-
verts from Liverpool bound for Balt Lake
City. were landed at New York on the 18th
The loss of the fishing schooner Rebecca
Nickerson on the banks, with her crew oil
nineteen men was reported from Province
town, Mass, on the 18th All the rest OF
the fleet had returned safely
ALONG the northern ridge OF the Blue
Mountains, near Carlisle, Pa, the most de-
structive fire known for many years was
raging on the 18th. Much valuable timber
bad been destroyed and the loss would be
very heavy.
A CONFEDERATION at Syracuse, n. Y, on
the 18th destroyed Barney, Lambley Co 4
mil .inery house, George C. Young Bros
dry-goods establishment and Everson 4
Co.'S hardware store The losses aggre-
gated $4,000
The remains Of General Fitzpatrick were
inferred in @The Heroes Corner" of the little
cemetery ut West Point on the 18th with
military honors
The failure of the National Rubber Com
pany of Providence, r l., owning the most
extensive factory of the kind in the world,
occurred on the 18th for 100000
The ninth game of baseball for the
worlds championship, played on the 10th
ut Philadelphia, resulted: Detroit, 4; st
Louis, 2.
THREE natural gas explosions occurred
almost simultaneously on the 10th ut Pitts
burgh, Pa. partly wrecking the Hotel Albe-
marie and Bijou Theater block, and shat
tered every window in the vicinity. A
score of persons were wounded, two fa-
tally.
OVER two thousand employees Of the Bal.
timore Ohio Telegraph Company were
notified on the 10th by the Western Union
Telegraph Company that their services
would not be required after November /.
HENRY SHAFFNER, aged seventy-foul
years, killed his wife, fifty-six years Of age
and then shot himself dead ut Jalappa
Pa, on the 10Th The couple were mar.
ried year ago
FIVE THOUSAND Philadelphia shoe-makers
abandoned their benches on the 10th, and
the proprietors Of twenty -four factories
paid off their hands, the employers turning
the strike into a lockout
The failure of William Walker, importe,
of dress trimmings at New York occurred or
the 10th for Yl25, 900, due principally t.
European firms
WooDMAN, TRUE h Co., jobbers in dry.
goods at Portland, Me-. assigned on the 2Ott
with liabilities Of $3.50, ,OOO